I've absolutely loved patching and working on modules for nginx source code. Partially I suspect because it's so homogeneous. It's nice and modular and succin

I've absolutely loved patching and working on modules for nginx source code. Partially I suspect because it's so homogeneous. It's nice and modular and succinct - the optimizations don't obfuscate the code. As others have pointed out, responding to http requests is not rocket science, and digging into nginx reminds you that responding to a simple problem simply tends to yield pretty good reliability and performance.